After graduating from UTAS in 1993, Justin Ridge undertook postgraduate studies in the United States. He was a senior research engineer with Nokia Research Center in Dallas, Texas, and recently joined Nokia’s Standardization and Industry Relations Unit.
Justin’s specialty is video and multimedia, an interest that grew out of his UTAS honours project. He was a member of Nokia’s video codec research team, working on the design of H.264/AVC and later scalable video coding (SVC). You probably “use” his work without even realising it – H.264/AVC is used to store or transmit video in devices ranging from the Apple iPod, Sony PSP and Blu-Ray DVDs to DVB-T television broadcasts, and of course Nokia phones. He is currently working on the new U.S. mobile TV standard, ATSC-M/H, and is involved in business strategy development for video codecs within Nokia.
After graduating from UTAS in 1993, Justin Ridge undertook postgraduate studies in the United States. He was a senior research engineer with Nokia Research Center in Dallas, Texas, and recently joined Nokia’s Standardization and Industry Relations Unit.
